The Commission on Elections’ First Division recently junked the disqualification case against presidential aspirant Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
I am dismayed and appalled by this shameless and perfidious act of the two commissioners of the Comelec’s First Division because it is against logic, common sense, and existing laws and jurisprudence.
Commissioner Aimee Ferolino, the ponente or designated writer of the case, and Commissioner Marlon Casquejo justified their silly and preposterous justification that failure to file income tax returns is “not inherently wrong in the absence of a law punishing it.” I am aghast at how the Commissioners arrived at such a conclusion. They conveniently forget the fact that the son and namesake of the late dictator was convicted by the regional trial court and the appellate court for tax evasion.
By saying that there is no law punishing tax evasion, the two election commissioners practically branded the convicting judges and justices of ignorance of the law.
Or is it safe to assume that the commissioners’ eyeglasses practically mirror their own pathetic condition of their own interpretation of the law?